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Title
Labour in contemporary capitalism : what next? / Ursula Huws.
ISBN
9781137520425 (electronic book)
1137520426 (electronic book)
9781137520401
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-52
Call Number
HD5711
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.11072
Summary
In this long-awaited book, Ursula Huws brings together the results of decades of prescient research on labour market transformation to provide an authoritative overview of the impacts of technological, economic, social and political change on working life in the 21stcentury. Placing current upheavals in global labour markets firmly in their historical context, she debunks myths about the impacts of artificial intelligence on labour, pointing to the processes whereby new employment is created, as well as old jobs destroyed, while never underestimating the contradictory impacts of digitalisation on work organisation, resistance, adaption and innovation. This book is underpinned by a clear conceptual framework, that analyses the dynamics of the restructuring of capitalism and labour, taking full account of unpaid social reproductive work, and integrating a feminist analysis whilst also pointing to new forms of commodification that will shape the future. Labour in Contemporary Capitalism will be an invaluable resource and point of reference for students and scholars studying the sociology of labour, economic structures, technology, and globalisation.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 7, 2019)
Series
Dynamics of virtual work.
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Labour In and Out of Capitalism; 3 The Dynamics of Capitalist Development; 4 Combination, Inclusion and Exclusion: Contradictory Forces in Worker Organisation Under Capitalism; 5 Creative Work Under Capitalism; 6 Commodification of Public Services; 7 Commodification of Housework; Primitive Accumulation-The Generation of New Commodities; Social Inequalities and the Dynamics of Change in Paid Service Labour; Expansion of 'Productive' Private Services; Substitution of Goods for Services
Externalisation of Labour and the Growth of Unpaid Consumption Work8 What Next?; Bibliography; Index
